Women in Theatre

The acclaimed television series, WOMEN IN THEATRE – Dialogues with Notable Women in American Theatre, was produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women (Betty Corwin, Ruth Mayleas, Harriet Slaughter: producers). Hosted by Linda Winer, Newsday Theatre Critic, it was aired on CUNY TV (Channel 75 in New York City).

This unique series highlights the accomplishments of women on the American stage; each program consists of 13 half-hour interviews with distinguished women directors, producers, designers, playwrights, and performers. WIT provides a long overdue focus, through the medium of television, on the major roles that women have played in all aspects of the American theatre’s history, development, and current practices.

WOMEN IN THEATRE has been underwritten by the Ford Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Lortel Foundation. the Edith Meiser Foundation, the Grisham Foundation, the Amber Foundation, the Steven and Daryl Roth Foundation, the Strelsin Foundation, the Palisades Educational Foundation, the Betty R. Sheffer Foundation, William Haber, and Joanne Jacobson, Nina Lannan, Honey Waldman, and other individual League members.